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Air Serbia maintains growth momentum

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Air Serbia’s passenger numbers continue to soar

Air Serbia has continued to record strong passenger growth in March. The Serbian national carrier welcomed 132.412 passengers on board its aircraft, an increase of 60.8% compared to last year’s 82.336 travellers. The airline’s average cabin load factor stood at 58%. The highest overall cabin occupancy was recorded on services from Prague to Belgrade, Belgrade to Ljubljana and Bucharest to Belgrade. March marks the carrier’s fifth month of consecutive passenger growth. During the month, the airline launched two new routes - to Sofia and Budapest. In the first quarter, Serbia’s national carrier handled 368.389 passengers, an increase of 66.3% compared to the same period last year.

Month

PAX

Change (%)

JAN

127.432

▲ 63.5

FEB

108.545

▲ 77.1

MAR

132.412

▲ 60.8

Meanwhile, yesterday, the airline announced plans to boost frequencies and capacity on its services to the Adriatic coast due to strong demand. “Air Serbia will provide even more convenient flights and connections to these popular summer destinations on the Adriatic coast for passengers from Serbia and other European countries”, the airline said in a statement. From May 27, an additional daily flight will operate to Tivat, totalling three daily services. Flights to Tivat will also see a big boost in capacity as services will operate with a mix of ATR72, Airbus A319 and A320 jets. “The upgraded aircraft will also mark the introduction of Air Serbia's highly regarded business class service on this route”, the airline adds. Furthermore, the carrier will introduce another three weekly flights to Dubrovnik from May 30, to be operated with the Airbus A319. As a result, a total of six weekly flights will be offered to the coastal city. An additional one weekly A319 service will be added to Split from May 30, with a total five flights per week. The additional frequencies will run until September 15 after which the original schedule will come back into force.

Finally, Air Serbia has announced changes to its in-flight menus this month. The airline says its meal choices offer improved versions of Serbian specialities with most ingredients used to prepare the meals produced in Serbia itself. The airline adds it plans to make menu changes and improvements every three months. Furthermore, a choice of meals has been introduced for passengers with special dietary requirements.

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April numbers should be interesting since they were catastrophic last year. The airline carried 90.844 which was a decrease of 16%. This has also caused Belgrade airport's numbers to go down.

I have a feeling that it is not unrealistic to expect a 100% passenger growth this month. After all, on most days Air Serbia handled more than 6.000 passengers (6.200 yesterday). Some routes, such as Larnaca or Tel Aviv, have been performing extremely well lately. Loads on some routes are really justifying the introduction of the A320 into the fleet.

We like it :) I've browsed fares for end of August and RT tickets can be easily found for <200CHF for both LX and JU on that route (U2, EY and LX on GVA-BEG are also in that range).Great news, A321 for JU would be awesome, too, but I don't expect it to happen before next summer season...

There must be quite some transfer pax on LJU-BEG. I hope with the high load factor they can start a second daily flight or at least switch to a better plane. Happy that Adria and AS sorted things out so its profitable for both.

Choice of meal would be cool - as a star alliance customer (miles collector) I know that at least Lufthansa Austrian and Swiss DO NOT have this- this option is only available on intercontinental flights.Adria and Croatia also do not have this (I've only flown short distances with them), American Airways does not have any complementary meals anyway, neither does Brussels Airways, Turkish im not sure and the other Star Alliance members I dont know.

I flew GVA-ATH with LX and GVA-IST with TK and both times we had a choice between 2 warm meals (both flights were over 2.5hrs). But warm meal on a 2hr flight is a rare thing. JU, keep up the good work!

airBaltic just released a statement that last year they made a profit of 1 million Euros compared to a loss of 27 million the year before that. Maybe this is the right business structure for Adria. Especially now that they are getting rid of the CRJ-200s.

There is nothing bad about it. The food service before was not great so if most people don't get it its no big deal and for who actually wants something tasty now they will be able to buy it. If that diminishes the ticket price for the rest for even 1$ the goal is reached. Cheap people will stay cheap and who can afford more will do so. In the US this is practice for more than a decade now. At least they are doing something productive in pursuing profit. When it comes to price Adria is really no exception to the rule - besides LCCs with a really crapy offer who is giving a much much better deal in the region without being subsidized or on the brink of collapse?

Air Serbia launches its first promotional campaign for Croatian cities. One can book a Happy Friday fare for €98 to both Split and Dubrovnik! If one decides to buy them tomorrow then he can book a seat at a discounted fare for the whole of summer.

Great. It is very nice to see Air Serbia will join British Airways, Finnair, Lufthansa, Tarom, Luxair, Aeroflot, Aer Lingus, Austrian, Iberia and many other airlines in Dubrovnik. All of those companies record very high load factors year by year so I hope Air Serbia will also, especially because JU offers great service and transfer flights to some destinations that are not served with direct flights to Dubrovnik (e.g. Skopje).

Ah cool, I remembered reading about some airbridges to be added but wasn't sure if they would be the first ones or additional ones. Do you know which company will install them? I hope they will be the all-glass ones.

Early comments in this thread complained about low LF, so it looks like Air Serbia decided to stick it to them!Trolls will always try to find some negative info to counter good news about Air Serbia, like that awesome A.net trip report. If they are paid to be trolls, their bosses should look at consistent 70% YoY growth at Air Serbia and decide it their trolls are useless. For the rest of us, it just makes it easier to ignore them.

From 18th April there will be no newspapers for Air Serbia passengers in the economy class, only for business class. I remember Jat Airways distributed Serbian newspapers to ALL passengers flying to Serbia.

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